[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5490-S5491]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6007. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of title IV, add the following:

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                       Subtitle D--Other Matters

     SEC. 431. REPORTING ON END STRENGTH RATIONALES.

       Section 115a(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary'';
       (2) by inserting ``, including an assessment of the most 
     important threats facing the United States by regional 
     command and how personnel end strength level requests address 
     those specific threats'' after ``in effect at the time''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Not later than May 1 each year, the Secretary shall 
     provide a briefing to Congress including--
       ``(A) the rationale for recommended increases or decreases 
     in active, reserve, and civilian personnel for each component 
     of the Department of Defense;
       ``(B) the rationale for recommended increases or decreases 
     in active, reserve, and civilian personnel for each of the 
     regional combatant commands;
       ``(C) the primary functions or missions of military and 
     civilian personnel in each regional combatant command; and
       ``(D) an assessment of any areas in which decreases in 
     active, reserve, or civilian personnel would not result in a 
     decrease in readiness.''.
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